Invisible No More

The Wallflower Gallery describes its open-mike night as a Free Speech Zone where local bards and troubadours can cut loose with social commentary among like-minded souls. Ploppys Podium usually features spoken-word performances and a band, but this time we are doing something different, says gallery director Flash. At 8 p.m., we are screening Invisible Children, a documentary about the plight of Ugandan kids that hide in temporary lodgings at night to flee the guerrillas fighting in the countrys 20-year civil war. They have been forcefully recruited and trained as killers. This is another form of genocide, and one that not many people are yet aware of.

Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole, who formed a nonprofit organization in order to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis of child soldiers in Uganda, filmed the documentary in 2003. Its become a grassroots effort, and proceeds from the screening will be donated to the Invisible Children organization, adds Flash. See it at The Wallflower Gallery. Movie tickets cost five dollars. The open-mike event at 9:30 is free Fri., June 20, 2008